Global InformationMeryl Streep on screen and stage information
Meryl Streep is an American actress who has had an extensive career in film, television, and stage.[1][2] She made her stage debut in 1975 with The Public Theater production of Trelawny of the 'Wells'.[3] She went on to perform several roles on stage in the 1970s, gaining a Tony Award nomination for her role in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1976).[4] In 1977, Streep made her film debut with a brief role alongside Jane Fonda in Julia.[5] A supporting role in the war drama The Deer Hunter (1978) proved to be a breakthrough for Streep; she received her first Academy Award nomination for it.[6] She won the award the following year for playing a troubled wife in the top-grossing drama Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).[7] In 1978, Streep played a German, "Aryan" woman married to a Jewish man in Nazi Germany in the television miniseries Holocaust, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.[8]
Streep established herself as a leading Hollywood actress in the 1980s.[9][10] She played dual roles in the period drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981),[10] and starred as a Polish Holocaust survivor in Sophie's Choice (1982).[11] She was awarded the Best Actress Oscar for the latter.[8] Streep portrayed the real-life character of Karen Silkwood in Mike Nichols' drama Silkwood (1983),[12] before starring in her most financially successful release of the decade, the romantic drama Out of Africa (1985), in which she played the Danish writer Karen Blixen.[13][14] With intermittent successes, Streep's career went through a period of relative decline post-1985, with several commentators criticizing her inclination towards melodramatic roles,[15] despite her attempt at playing against-type in the comedies She-Devil (1989) and Death Becomes Her (1992).[16]
In 1995, Streep starred opposite Clint Eastwood as an unhappily married woman in The Bridges of Madison County, her biggest critical and commercial success of the decade.[14][17] Although her dramas of the late 1990s received a mixed reception overall,[18][19] she was praised for her role as a cancer patient in One True Thing (1998).[20] She had acclaimed roles in the 2002 films Adaptation. and The Hours, and won a second Emmy Award for the television miniseries Angels in America a year later.[21][22] Greater success returned to Streep in 2006, with an Academy Award-nominated role as a ruthless fashion magazine editor in the comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada.[23] This led to starring roles in several high-profile films, including the US$609 million-grossing romantic comedy Mamma Mia! (2008), her highest-grossing release, and the comedy-drama Julie & Julia (2009), in which she played Julia Child.[24][25] These roles re-established Streep's stardom.[26] Her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Iron Lady (2011) earned her another Academy Award for Best Actress.[27] Further Oscar nominations came for her starring roles in August: Osage County (2013), Into the Woods (2014), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and The Post (2017), setting a record for more nominations than any actor or actress in history.[28]
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- ^ a b Siskel, Gene (October 10, 1981). "Streep likes fame, avoids stardom". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ Insdorf 2003, pp. 35–36.
- ^ Rice 1999, pp. 66.
- ^ Hollinger 2006, pp. 388.
- ^ a b "Meryl Streep Movie Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 5, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ Hollinger 2006, pp. 78–79.
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- ^ Ebert, Roger (February 23, 1996). "Before and After (1996)". RogerEbert.com. Archived from the original on May 11, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (November 13, 1998). "Movie Review of Dancing at Lughnasa". The New York Times. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ LaSalle, Mick (September 18, 1998). "Home Is a Beautiful 'Thing' / Streep shines in drama about ailing mother". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on April 13, 2009. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
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- ^ Weinraub, Bernard (September 20, 2004). "HBO Is Big Winner at Emmy Awards". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ Wloszczyna, Susan (January 21, 2015). "The 3 Acts of Meryl Streep's Long and Glorious Career". Indiewire. Archived from the original on April 1, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
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- ^ "Mamma Mia! (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 2, 2010. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ Scott, A.O. (February 18, 2010). "That Unmistakable Streepness". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 19, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ Perlman, Jake (February 26, 2012). "Oscars winners list: 'The Artist,' Jean Dujardin, and Meryl Streep take home top awards". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on February 16, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
- ^ McNary, Dave (January 23, 2018). "Meryl Streep Breaks Own Record With 21st Oscar Nomination". Variety. Archived from the original on January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.